today collect the dazzling shelter of flowersstitch a crown large enough for the globefragrant enough for satellites to lift their nosestake the prayer of night into your armsas she sleeps, breathe with herbreathe with the nightthere are times when there is nothingleft to do but createform the unseen into a tangible communionof stardust, place the galaxy on your tonguelet your mouth be a wondrous glowyour words a beaconwhen everything is lostimagine yourself as more than an earth-quaking body a giftthe streaking tail of a cometbecome that which holds your eyethat which makes you gasp

Amir Rabiyah lives in Oakland, California. His work has been published in Mizna,Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith,Religion and Spirituality, Troubling the Line: Trans and Gender Queer Poetry and Poetics,Left Turn Magazine and more. Feel free to visit www.amirrabiyah.com.